A Moscow Court Placed Sergey Oganyan, the Father of a Young Child, Under House Arrest. The Believer Spent 3 Days Behind Bars

On June 5, 2020, the Babushkinskiy District Court of Moscow refused to allow the investigator to detain Sergey Oganyan, 33, who had been detained after a series of searches in Vlasiha settlement near Moscow, and sent the believer under house arrest.

Investigator E. V. Dymchenko accuses Sergey Oganyan under three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation at once: organization of an extremist community (part 1 of article 282.2), recruitment (part 1.1 of article 282.2) and participation in it (part 2 of article 282.2). Despite the fact that the investigator asked for a strict measure of restraint - pre-trial detention - the prosecutor did not support this request. He asked to limit him to house arrest.

As a result, the judge of Babushkinskiy district court Evgeniya Babinova refused the investigator in the detention of a believer. She took into account the following: he has a permanent place of residence in the Moscow region, is employed, earlier was not under the trial, has a minor child. In addition, there is no evidence that Sergey will obstruct the investigation and will abscond.

However, the judge considered it necessary to place the believer under house arrest, forbidding him from communicating with witnesses in the case and using any kind of communication.

It is worth mentioning that earlier Judge Evgeniya Babinova decided to put the believers from Chekhov near Moscow under house arrest.